Film of interview with Billy Draper, 6 of 11

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Oral history of Billy Draper

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Billy Draper (aged 101), of Haslinton, interviewed September 1996 by Grant Smith, recorded on VHS video. Draper was a private in 19th Company RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps), a unit known as “The Whalley Pals”.
9.48 mins duration, chapter 6 of 11: Billy Draper recalls: treating casualties at Belgium battery post, a temporary dressing station, marking “M” to show given morphia (morphine), the envelopes attached to a body to be separated - part with body, part going to the unit for records (mentions Bert Bullock of Blackburn, Jack Taylor of Blackburn) / joining-up looking too young / describes family portrait photo of Billy and two brothers; a man called Quartermaster Hanrahan saying “if you ever hear of me being shot it’ll be in the arse!” / bugle calls (music) / mentions Matron Smythe (Miss Smythe) / sounding the fire alarm during a fire in beams in a dining room and a resulting court of enquiry.